Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan's Dislocation of Psychoanalysis (Literature, Culture, Theory, Series Number 1)

Return to Freud: Jacques Lacan's Dislocation of Psychoanalysis (Literature, Culture, Theory, Series Number 1) by Weber, Samuel. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780521377706.

In this major work, leading theorist Samuel Weber provides a much-needed introduction to the thought of Jacques Lacan. Professor Weber approaches his subject from a dual perspective: he reads Lacan in the light of Freud (whose work Lacan is concerned to interpret), and from the perspective of structuralism, above all Saussure, from whom Lacan borrows and develops a distinctive conception of language as signifier. Lacan is shown to contribute crucially to the rethinking of subjectivity that marks much of contemporary literary theory, and his return to Freud - the complex relationship between his work and its Freudian antecedents - is explored extensively. The result, made available here for the first time in English (in a form thoroughly revised, updated, and augmented by the author) is a constantly illuminating work of intellectual enquiry, with important implications for our age.